10 month ago
veen : An Entirely Other Day - Wide vs. Deep - s/programmer/designer/
deusx : An Entirely Other Day - Wide vs. Deep - "I’ve got this theory about what it’s like to be a manager and what it’s like to be a developer ... and I think it explains pretty well why I deeply, profoundly hate the former and dearly, truly love the latter."
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14 month ago
Simon Willison : Understanding Engineers: Feasibility - Understanding Engineers: Feasibility. Charles Miller provides smart definitions of what programmers mean when they say “impossible”, “trivial”, “unfeasible”, “non-trivial”, “hard” and “very hard”.
Rod Begbie : The Fishbowl: Understanding Engineers: Feasibility - Every person who has any contact with software engineers Must Read This. Accurate definitions of the oft-used words "impossible", "trivial", "unfeasible", "non-trivial", "hard" and "very hard". [via] #
deusx : The Fishbowl: Understanding Engineers: Feasibility - "here's a quick lexicon of what computer programmers generally mean when they're talking about how hard some problem is, starting with the most extreme"
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30 month ago
kayodeok : How to Drive your Website Developer Insane: A Primer - Constantly bring up your expert programmer son/cousin/close family friend. Make one up if you don’t really have one! Be sure to give them the most annoying qualities possible and make sure they always give the opposite advice of the programmer actu
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31 month ago
kayodeok : krugle/the search engine/for developers/ - krugle makes it easy for developers to find source code and technical information
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33 month ago
kayodeok : Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers - The first step in becoming an effective programmer is to ensure that you are spending your time wisely. And there is no greater waste of time than in working on something that is not useful or never shipped
Rod Begbie : Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers - Some excellent tips for living the programming life, with plenty of examples. [via] #
Paul Hammond : Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers - the ability to complete projects in a timely manner with the expected quality
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33 month ago
kayodeok : A Programmers Bookshelf - Presented here is the bookshelf of one of our senior programmers. Hopefully this will act as a guide as to what we find useful in developing the varied software needed for our products. Not all of these are definite recommendations but the comments should
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34 month ago
kayodeok : My life as a Code Economist - The six billion people of the world can be divided into two groups: People who know why every good software company ships products with known bugs and People who don't.
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35 month ago
kayodeok : Sue Companies, Not Coders - "It's the software manufacturers that should be held liable, not the individual programmers. Getting this one right will result in more-secure software for everyone; getting it wrong will simply result in a lot of messy lawsuits".
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36 month ago
kayodeok : C'mon Kids, Let's Play Programmer - Computer programmer Igor Kholodov has created a game that he says can entertain while teaching the basics of computer programming languages like Java or C
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36 month ago
kayodeok : c-jump: computer programming board game - c-jump helps children to learn basics of programming languages, such as C, C and Java
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38 month ago
François Nonnenmacher : Hitting the High Notes - The best straw I've ever seen to the myth of man-day in software development
kayodeok : Joel on Software - Hitting the High Notes: The mediocre talent just never hits the high notes that the top talent hits all the time - "why isn't there room in the software industry for a low cost provider, someone who uses the cheapest programmers available?"
Rod Begbie : Joel on Software - Hitting the High Notes - Another great Joel Spolsky article. "Five Jim Davis's could spend the rest of their lives writing comedy and never, ever produce the Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld." #
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41 month ago
kayodeok : IBM on the hunt for Firefox programmers | CNET News.com - In the newest indication that Firefox has become mainstream, IBM is trying to hire programmers to adapt the open-source Web browser to work well with Big Blue's server software
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50 month ago
Simon Willison : The Python Paradox - Short but sweet. (via) [via]
deusx : The Python Paradox - "And people don't learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren't satisfied with the languages they already know."
kayodeok : The Python Paradox - People don't learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren't satisfied with the languages they already know
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